New features in bikesafer.com

As promised, new revisions to bikesafer.com. We have a new visual treatment for the risk hierarchy, it has mouseover notes and links to the main sections. And the ultra-defensive riding strategies section has a new tab for weather strategies, after some field work in the rain and a bit of a reassessment of the conclusions in the studies on weather as a crash causation.

Over the weekend, Special ED and I took our bikes out and demonstrated frontal conspicuity using low and high beams, modulators and running lights on video. This is in process of editing and I think the new feature will let viewers make up their own minds about the effectiveness of these conspicuity measures, once I figure out how to edit video. We used ED's Harley Road King and my ST1300 for the shoot so you can see the effect with different cycles.

We are also working on a new feature with photos of installing cheapie truck super-LED marker lights on my Honda 919 as conspicuity lights, total budget for the project about 30 bucks.

Thanks to gimp for their wonderful freeware video editor. It is a cool tool, and free is good.

We have dozens of site improvements and new features on the way, check us out again in a little while.

ET